Connecticut western news., 1887-08-24
OLEOMARGARINE.

Waterbury's death list for July was 134
 Thomaston is to be lighted by elec- tricity.
 Ansonia opened its first street railroad on Thursday last
 Twenty three prisoners terms expire in Wethersfeld this month. Danbury's horse railroad was open ed for traffic last Wednesday. There has not been natural death in the town of Morris in 8 year and a-half. Litchfeld county has 4S3 pensioners, the quarterly payments amount to | $4, 544. 50.
 Levi Prosser has given his farm of POS acres, in Bloomfield, to the Hart ford City mission.
 The races at Charter Oak Park, Hart ford, will take place August 30, 31, Sept and 2.
 A Brookfeld farmer has two acres of corn the stalks of which average a height of fourteen feet.
 The first gates to be erected at any crossing on the Housatonic road are soon to be placed at New Milford.
 A Mormon elder, named Pierce, is reported as being in Torrington fishing for converts to the Mormon faith.
 The annual fair of the Connecticut State Agricultural Society will be held at Meriden Sept 13, IA, 15 and Is.
 Hartford's new city directory shows a net gain of S49 residents over last year, a number exceeded but twice since 1872.
 The Naval Veteran association of Con necticut will hold their annual reunion at the Massasoit house, at Savin Rock, tomorrow, Aug 25.
 The H. & c. w. railroads net earn ings for the nine months ending June 30, were $63, ,332, an increase of 25 per cent over the same time last year.
 James Saunders, the lost man of Brookfeld, has turned up. He has been in Massachusetts, and claims to have walked over 300 miles, but gives no reason for his sudden and mysteri- ous disappearance.
 Manager Stevenson, of the Housaton- ic road, has purchased number of the old centennial coaches and they are at the repair shops in Falls Village, being repaired and renovated They will be used mostly for excursion purposes.
 William H. Romer clerk in the post-office at Waterbury, was arrested lost week upon warrant sworn out by | nAHoo T. H1o of Boston, and Col Bario, of Meriden, upon charge of robbing the mails.
 Frederick G. Lineburgh, of Norwalk, was drowned in the well at the rear of his residence Friday last. The we'll is about 12 feet deep, with only two feet of water. It had low curb, and he evidently lost his balance and fell in head first. ..
 A number of guests assembled to attend wedding in Seymour the other day, and everything being in readiness except the bridegroom, who failed to put in his appearance, some of the guests started off to look for him. He was found sitting under tree smoking, and when asked why he did not go to the house, replied that he had changed his mind and decided not to get married
 Speaker Hoyt has appointed the fol lowing as the House committee to join in representing the state of Connecticut at the constitutional centennial celebra- tion at Philadelphia William H Hurd of Bristol, George M. Gum of Milford, John $. Morgan of Groton, Patrick Coughlin of Bridgeport, Gustavus D. Bates of Putnam, Harvey B. Steele o1 Winchester, John c. Broatch of Middle town, and Charles F. Sumner of Bolton.
 The races of the Western Connecticut trotting circuit begin next month and continue through September and part of October The races are trotted il connection with the agricultural fairs beginning at Derby Sept. 6 and closing at Danbury October 8. The circuit con. sists of Derby, Meriden, Watertown, Cherry Park, Southington and Danbu ", and the premiums aggregate $1O,OO( There will be three days racing each al Derby, Southington and Watertown four days at Danbury and two days al Cherry P lark